Republicans keep the heat on 'Obamacare'

GOP hopes to turn issue to its advantage in 2014 elections

9:20 PM,
Oct. 20, 2013

Written by

Donna Cassata
and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

"Obamacare" escaped unharmed from the government shutdown Republicans hoped would stop it, but just as quickly they have opened a new line of attack - one handed to them by the administration itself.

While Congress was arguing, President Barack Obama's plan to expand coverage for the uninsured suffered a self-inflicted wound. A computer system seemingly designed by gremlins gummed up the first open enrollment season. After nearly three weeks, it's still not fixed.

Republicans hope to ride that and other defects they see in the law into the 2014 congressional elections. Four Democratic ...